Madam, - Your leading article "Rebuilding the Moyross estate" (January 22nd) made interesting reading. You raise the question of how the criminal element, a minority but not a tiny one by all accounts, should be dealt with. There appears to be no doubt that what the law-abiding citizens want is to have them out. But, as you rightly ask, where to?
The more fundamental question you raise is: should the taxpayers be expected to subsidise criminality? Should they be expected to subsidise parents who allow their children to indulge in criminal yobbery - so-called anti-social behaviour?
Merely to raise these questions will, of course, bring down the wrath of the "bleeding hearts" who will as usual blame society, the Government, the lack of this and that facility, but never the individual. I must confess to being a long-standing member of that ilk but I fear there's a nettle here which we are going to have to grasp. - Yours, etc,
JAMES MORAN, Knockanure, Bunclody, Co Wexford.